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1991 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Economic Sanctions: Pre-World War II Through Cold War

verfasst von : David W. Hunter

Erschienen in: Western Trade Pressure on the Soviet Union

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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In 1925, British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain stated in the League of Nations: ‘The great advantage of economic sanctions, is … they do not involve the resort to force.’1 The commonly held view was that economic sanctions were the perfect weapon to pressure states into compliance without blood being spilt or lives lost. By 1980, however, Adler-Karlsson had reached a different conclusion: economic sanctions as instruments of foreign policy almost never worked.2

Metadaten
Titel
Economic Sanctions: Pre-World War II Through Cold War
verfasst von
David W. Hunter
Copyright-Jahr
1991
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12002-4_2